Can We Fix Racial Gaps in Colorectal Cancer Death Rates?

Before 1980, colorectal cancer death rates were actually higher for whites than African Americans. But, as rates began falling in the 1980’s for both blacks and white patients, decreases for whites were substantially greater than those for blacks. Between 1985 and 2008, mortality rates for whites with colorectal cancer fell 40 percent, while black rates declined by… Read More